Sentence examples for formidable scholar from inspiring English sources
She also studied with Dietrich von Bothmer, a formidable scholar of Greek vases, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jonathan Jones's article on Penelope Curtis, outgoing director of Tate Britain, (misogynist subtext?) is a highly unpleasant attack on a formidable scholar and curator.
She is a formidable scholar of 17th-century poetry specializing in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, those notoriously difficult, cerebral examinations of life, death and the afterlife.
Marquand commands our attention as a leading example of a rare species: a true public intellectual, a former politician as well as a formidable scholar.
In 15 years on the Court, Justice Rehnquist has become known as a formidable scholar, articulate judge and ardent advocate, but the Senate and the nation need to examine him also as the head of Government's third branch.
Jean Dreze, an economist based in India who has worked with Deaton, said: "Angus Deaton is not only a brilliant economist but also a formidable scholar and a great writer.
When I was awarded my honorary doctorate last year I was impressed by the warm atmosphere and intellectual drive of the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, which is home to formidable scholars and committed Caribbeanists.
When I was awarded my honorary doctorate last year I was impressed by the warm atmosphere and intellectual drive of the department of literature, film, and theatre studies which is home to formidable scholars and committed Caribbeanists.
It's a gamble that Phillips, for one, is prepared to make, and he has the charismatic presence to persuade a lot of formidable scholars and writers to come along with him for the ride.
The formidable Bach scholar Christoph Wolff argues, however, that such flamboyance could be the product of a "youthful and unrestrained" composer — bad-boy Bach, as it were.
Although he handled no landmark cases and came across as a nervous and somewhat indifferent speaker before the bench, he earned a reputation as a formidable legal scholar.
